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When i finally made it here to Las Vegas to see my dad for christmas, after a long mean winter storm hitting just before me having to fly, thus delays of course… My dad said to me… “So we are still here. I guess those Mayans were wrong!”.

My immediate reply was… “No. I think that they may have been right. But i think it is a different kind of end of the world than those have been projecting. I think it is now an era where we have almost 2+ full generations that have lived exclusively with only technology. They do not know what the world was like before cordless things and multimedia. They did not see how a community works together to trade information and form friendships as well as a form of community that no longer can exist when nobody is forced to talk to anyone to receive any piece of information when it can simply be googled. ”

I said… that i thought that this is the era where we become closer to being enslaved (again.). We are having our freedoms taken.. no… GIVEN away to a greed machine that has only one goal…. And you and i having any quality of life does not go well with squeezing out the bottom line drop by drop.

We have been hoodwinked… programed… set up…. We are prime for it. Our little mega processors in our skulls are definitely programable. That is after all what helps to make us so adaptable. Yes. We may be crafty enough to have our species survive for a while, but just surviving and living a forced existence through forced behavior, labor and life, (just think Metropolis by Fritz Lang or Orwell’s 1984. There are people working on that dream like scenario for us right now!).

I think that for me as well as for society, this has been the golden years. The dream like ferrie tale has been now. And i fear is soon to be a memory.

So, if our freedoms and our ability to provide a quality of life for ourselves i